Seven Centuries

Catching up with the Mythgard Academy class on Dante’s Inferno, when one of Prof. Olsen’s glosses sounded suddenly familiar.

Dante Alighieri, 1320:

Can those who lie within the sepulchers
be seen? The lids—in fact—have all been lifted;
no guardian is watching over them.”

Corey Olsen, 2021:

Why don’t they get away? I mean, like, the door’s open.

Pete Townshend, 1969:

But you’ve been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door —
No one had the guts to leave the temple!